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The book's premise is the classroom, for optimum learning, needs to be a place of comfort. Practical strategies for character building and conversing with others are provided.
List of contents
Foreword 1
Foreword 2
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One
1.Character Education/Teaching: Character Development/Growth
2.Getting to Know You
3.What Are You Thinking?
4.She Had Cooties: A Bullying Incident
Section Two
5. R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Realizations about Teaching Character Development
6. Caring: Fair: Responsible
7. Good Citizen: Trustworthy
8. Your Turn: The Six International
Traits of a Person of Good Character
Section Three
9. Stressors That Impact Behaviors:
When You're Not Being the Best You
10. Eradicating Bullying by Joshua Schiering
11. How to Accept an Apology
Empowering Victims and Educating Aggressors by Joshua Schiering
12. Character Education/Development
Making Decisions
13. Role-play Scenarios for Enhancing Character
Education's Decision-making
14. Character Education Intervention by Angela Sullivan
15. Book Activity and Four Life Statements for Daily Living
16. Self-acceptance: I Am Enough: Two Stories for Character Development
Afterward
Appendixes Overview
A: Reciprocal Thinking Skills Chart
B: Books with Moral Messages
C: Character Development Activities
Sequence of Presentation
D: Causes and Possible Prevention of Bullying, Harassment, Discrimination, and
Prejudice
E. Post-Character Development Workshop: Three Reflections
References
About the Author
About the author
Marjorie S. Schiering a former elementary and middle school teacher has been a professor at Molloy College for the past eighteen years. Her career has continually been devoted to academic and social cognition, along with social justice. She's a proponent of student engagement in learning, and simultaneously devoted to addressing/developing critical and creative thinking skills while adhering to the classroom being a comfort zone, because of everyone being a person of good character.
Summary
The book’s premise is the classroom, for optimum learning, needs to be a place of comfort. Practical strategies for character building and conversing with others are provided.
